Abstract: This thesis examines Nietzsche’s philosophic narrative Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In my first chapter, I focus in on the language of solitude and loneliness as it pertains to Zarathustra’s narrated philosophic journey and various parables on the concept of solitude itself. I work linearly through the text examining how Zarathustra’s character development reflects a specific, critical style of intellectual “becoming” in the absence of metaphysical certainty. In the second chapter, I defend the necessity of a literary interpretation to unpack the language and rhetorical conventions that Nietzsche uses to convey Zarathustra’s complex development.